Repository for the Contribution to the Qiskit Fall Fest Hackathon 2021
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. To still reach the 1.5° target, all scientists must join forces and ask themselves how they can contribute with their research.
To slow down climate change, carbon capturing, and storage methods will gain in importance in the future. CCS refers to the storage of CO2 in the seabed so that it does not reach the atmosphere. Renewable energies also require large quantities of rare metals. To meet this demand, deep-sea mining, the extraction of these metals from the seabed, has recently become a topic of discussion.
To realize these projects, meaningful models of the seabed are important, but subsurface modelling is an NP hard problem. Quantum computers could help to improve these calculations, as classical computers have reached their limits with the simulations.
In our project we follow the approach of the paper "An approach to quantum-computational hydrologic inverse analysis" by Daniel O'Malley using a QAOA routine from Qiskit instead of a D-Wave quantum annealing protocol.